Matthews, Cate.

"He Dropped One Letter In His Name While Applying For Jobs, And
The Responses Rolled In." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, n.d.
Web. 16 Mar. 2015.

Jose Zamora was actively seeking employment, He sent out his resume to over 50
companies, but received no calls back. Heres why.

As stated earlier Jose Zamora was seeking employment. He was qualified for all of the
positions he applied for, but he was still wondering why he received no calls back.
Therefore he decided to conduct an experiment. He dropped the s in his name now
making it Joe Zamora. He sent out his resumes again, and almost instantaneously he
began receiving callbacks and emails to set up interviews. "Joe" hadn't changed
anything on his resume but that one letter. But what Zamora had done, effectively, was
whitewash it.

Other quotes: Although digital job applications would seem to be the ultimate exercise
in colorblind hiring, numerous studies and applicants have found the opposite. Employers
consciously or subconsciously discriminate against names that sound black or Latino, as
reported by the New York Times. One much-cited study found that applicants with whitesounding names received 50 percent more callbacks than applicants with black-sounding
names, a significant disparity(1).

"I had to drop a letter to get a title," Zamora said, later adding, "Sometimes I don't even
think people know or are conscious or aware that they're judging -- even if it's by name -but I think we all do it all the time(1).